Radeon 9800 PRO Freezing/Hard Lock in games?

[bp]

I'll see about borrowing a PSU... I'm thinking about replacing the
motherboard (I wonder if it's still under ASUS warranty? hmm.)

Might be easier to find another PC to put the card in.

 

[McGrandpa]

I vote:
Power supply
There are some good web sites that can tell you how to determine your
power usage and if you're stressing the PS. I had same thing except my
PC would reboot.(Only during games)

Bought a new PS, after trying everything else, and never looked back.

(Didn't read the whole thread so if you've tried this don't kill me)

Hm. Mine has been doing what you're describing. RESET (reboot) while
playing a nice big game for a half hour. Then it began doing it while
doing 2D graphics, working on photos with 3 or 4 instances of PSP8 open.
Just like I'd pushed the reset button.
I shut it down, pulled the cards out, the DIMMS out, reinserted
carefully making sure of positive seating. Same with all the power
plugs, drive cables, power cables to mobo. It still did it. PS is a
new Antec TruPower 430W ATX12V btw. It's running 2 hd's, 2 cd type
drives, 1 sound card, 1 9800Pro and the GA8-848P(L) mobo, KB, optical
mouse, Wacom Graphire, everything else has its own PS adapter.
I'm unhappy with the fact the Radeon 9800 Pro does not have a thermal
sensor.

I've disabled HyperThreading and CPU Count in the BIOS. It's the only
New thing I haven't done anything with. Do you know of any issues the
ATi drivers or cards might have with HT?
McG.

 

[patrickp]

Hm. Mine has been doing what you're describing. RESET (reboot) while
playing a nice big game for a half hour. Then it began doing it while
doing 2D graphics, working on photos with 3 or 4 instances of PSP8 open.
Just like I'd pushed the reset button.
I shut it down, pulled the cards out, the DIMMS out, reinserted
carefully making sure of positive seating. Same with all the power
plugs, drive cables, power cables to mobo. It still did it. PS is a
new Antec TruPower 430W ATX12V btw. It's running 2 hd's, 2 cd type
drives, 1 sound card, 1 9800Pro and the GA8-848P(L) mobo, KB, optical
mouse, Wacom Graphire, everything else has its own PS adapter.
I'm unhappy with the fact the Radeon 9800 Pro does not have a thermal
sensor.

I've disabled HyperThreading and CPU Count in the BIOS. It's the only
New thing I haven't done anything with. Do you know of any issues the
ATi drivers or cards might have with HT?
McG.

Only other thing I can think of that hasn't been mentioned here is
something running in the background? Just a thought.

patrickp

(e-mail address removed) - take five to email me

 

[McGrandpa]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 09:21:15 GMT, "McGrandpa"

SNIPS for brevity

Only other thing I can think of that hasn't been mentioned here is
something running in the background? Just a thought.

patrickp

(e-mail address removed) - take five to email me

If it still does it in Far Cry, I'll be looking at that. With HT
disabled, I've run the system with a pretty heavy load for 3 hours, no
resets. But I haven't tried 3D games yet. Just 2D work.
I'll run Far Cry before going to the cinema (The Chronicles of Riddick!)
McG.

 

[Sept1967]

I don't think HT has any issues with catalyst drivers. I have used 3.8 ,
3.9 , 4.2 , and now 4.4's with HT P4's. And my main PC is a HT 2.8Ghz with a
9800Pro and Cat 4.4 's.

I would almost bet heat, or video speed settings (are you overclocking your
core or memory?)

 

[Shawk]

I don't think HT has any issues with catalyst drivers. I have used 3.8 ,
3.9 , 4.2 , and now 4.4's with HT P4's. And my main PC is a HT 2.8Ghz with a
9800Pro and Cat 4.4 's.

I would almost bet heat, or video speed settings (are you overclocking your
core or memory?)

Guys, havent read the whole thread so apologies if I'm repeating something
but I'm getting lock ups after about 1/2hr of Far Cry and UT04. This is not
a 9800 Pro but a 9600 Pro and has only happened since upgrading the drivers
to 4.6. I'm about to go back to the 4.4 Omegas to see if that makes a diff.
Shaun

 

[McGrandpa]

I'll ditto this (it could be the system RAM). I had a system that
seemed completely stable w/Kingston valueram
PC3200 (overclocked to 204Mhz) until I began playing Far Cry.
Everything else worked (Jedi Academy, Jedi Knight: Outcast, C&C
Generals: Zero Hour, Max Payne2 etc. I had to back down to 203 Mhz to
get Far Cry to work.



-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

Update on my prob:
Arbitrary resets, games or desktop. Not heat. Not the new Prescott
CPU, not the 9800 Pro. I came home this afternoon, turned the system
on, and started having lockups, then resets. Then more resets.
Finally, I decide to see what I have available in BIOS. I can adjust
the voltage AND freq of CPU, Ram and AGP bus independantly. I left all
the voltages set to 'normal', and simply set the DIMM freq to 166, not
200. Everest reports the DIMM slots are clocked at 160 now. No resets
yet. Looks like it's the Xerox PC3200 DDR dimms. I'll be talking to
the shop I bought them from tomorrow.
McG.

 

[Wood]

I have athlon xp 2500+, asus deluxe motherboard nforce2.
Also bought radeon 9800pro. After instaling card worked fine withou
sound ( i didnt so far instaled nforce2 drivers ). Upon instalin
nforce drivers I got sound but problems started (locking freeying in 3
games ). I ve uninstalled sound drivers and 9800pro started to wor
fine again. So the problem is that ati drivers uses some files a
nforce2 drivers ( I dont know which ) and they collide. If I solve thi
problem I ll post